The pursuit of local history : readings on theory and practice
In this work readers can discover the role local historians play, find out what the experts see as the values of the local history while exploring their theories, and see how local history has been practised by those who have dedicated their lives to it.
Local history
240 pages ; 23 cm.
9780761991694, 0761991697
34282787
The amateur historian / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr
Some impressions of the nonacademic local historians and their writings / David J. Russo
Local historians and their activities / Judith M. Wellman
An address delivered before the New-Hampshire Historical Society / Salma Hale
Deficiencies in our history: an address delivered before the Vermont Historical and Antiquarian Society at Montpelier, October 16, 1846 / James Davie Butler, Jr
The literature of American local history: a bibliographical essay / Hermann E. Ludewig
The value of local history / Lewis Mumford
The value of local history / Constance McLaughlin Green
Nearby history: connecting particulars and universals / David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty
State, local, and regional studies / John Alexander Williams
Changes in the community / Constance McLaughlin Green. (cont.) Challenges and opportunities in writing state and local history / Michael Kammen
The usable past: a study of historical traditions in Kansas City / Richard Wohl and A. Theodore Brown
A manifesto: the defense and illustration of local history / Paul Leuilliot
A sense of place: a historian advocates conceptual approaches to community history / Shelton Stormquist
How not to write local history / H.P.R. Finberg
The local historian: his occupational hazard and compensations / John Walton Caughey
How to write a Dull town history / Geoffrey Elan
Local and community history: some cautionary remarks on an idea whose time has returned / David A. Gerber
The stuff of history / Robert Archibald
"Published in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History."